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Unix Recovery Legend (1986)
- throwbadubadu 3y ago> Have you ever left your terminal logged in, only to find when you came back to it that a (supposed) friend had typed "rm -rf ~/*" and was hovering over the keyboard with threats along the lines of "lend me a fiver 'til Thursday, or I hit return"? Wow that is really nasty, the most we did was put confusing backgrounds in, or cronjob a say "xxx is yyy" and have a laugh in the next meeting :)
- tiffanyg 3y agoObviously you're not a disciple of the BofH ... https://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/bofh4.html https://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/bofh4.html ;)
- dang 3y agoRelated: Unix Recovery Legend (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25491790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25491790 - Dec 2020 (97 comments) Unix Recovery Legend (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160417 - Sept 2015 (60 comments) Unix Recovery Legend (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7892471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7892471 - June 2014 (52 comments) Unix recovery legend - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1212051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1212051 - March 2010 (83 comments)
- jimmysoda 3y agoDeja vu all over again
- bastardoperator 3y agoThe internet repeats itself
- BizarroLand 3y agoIn the dictionary under "redundant" it says, "See Redundant"
- tiffanyg 3y agoHmm, that seems more apt for "recursion". For redundant, how about - Redundant, a.: Redundant I.e., just "instantiate", don't do a "jmp" and all that kind of stuff, right? :)
- fuzztester 3y ago>Hmm, that seems more apt for "recursion". https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion
- BizarroLand 3y agoWell, you can say that again
- janvdberg 3y agoMore like an evergreen. The thing with evergreens is that there will always be someone who will encounter it for the very first time.
- ohjeez 3y agoAnd that is perfectly okay.
- BizarroLand 3y agoRelevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- fuzztester 3y ago>Deja vu all over again "I'm a big fan of small utilities." - That's a quote I made up in imitation of Yogi Berra's quotes, which I'm a fan of. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra
- dang 3y agoYup but think of the children https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20perennials&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- tonyg 3y agoI wonder whether gnuemacs of the time had the ability to create directories from Emacs lisp.
- sedatk 3y ago"echo *" just prints "*" on bash unfortunately.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoThat's its behaviour in an empty directory, but it works for me on a non-empty directory.
- tp34 3y agoshopt -s dotglob
- seanhunter 3y agoYes. Or one lowtech method I use often is `touch ~/-i`. When someone tries to rm -rf * the file called “-i” gets globbed at the front of the arguments and the subsequent command goes into “interactive “ mode meaning it prompts y/n for each file
- tpoacher 3y agoNice! Great "bug as a feature" trick!
- DonHopkins 3y agoSome doofus did a newfs.